"The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."

 

I have a beautiful bouquet of red roses on my dining room table. They started out as little buds, then they opened so beautifully, and this morning I noticed that the petals and leaves were beginning to fall to the table. Interestingly enough, as the roses are falling apart, they are the most fragrant! The entire dininig room smells like roses...but the roses themselves are dying. 

 

I tend to believe that this is how Christ sees us. When our lives are going well we tend to not think we need God. But as our lives begin to fall apart and we become fearful and in need, that is when we turn to Him in prayer. 

 

When we are falling apart, and dying to ourselves, and realizing that we need a Savior, Jesus Christ, we must smell so sweet in the nostrils of God and in our brokeness we must be so beautiful to His eyes, for He knows that, now, He is able to reach down and put us back together in the way He intended us to be. ♥

 

JOHN 12:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.